BLTAG/7

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1897:18
Macalister/1945:161
Site:BLTAG
Discovery:first mentioned, 1804 Vallancey
History:Cuppage/etal/1986, 264, states that this stone was found `in a field fence to S of calluragh'.

Macalister/1945, 151, credits Vallancey in his Collectanea of 1804 as the first record of the Ballintaggart stones.

Geology:Macalister/1945, 151: `sandstone'.
Dimensions:0.97 x 0.33 x 0.2 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in ground
Location:on site
Cuppage/etal/1986, 264: `now arranged [with the other BLTAG stones] in a circle within the enclosure [on site]'.
Form:boulder
Cuppage/etal/1986, 265: `oval water-rolled boulder'.
Condition:inc , inc
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: equal-armed; linear; straight; plain; plain; none; none; none; n/a
Decorations:

Macalister/1945, 155: `A plain cross is cut on the sinister side of the line of writing'.

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BLTAG/7/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):INISSIONAS
Expansion:
INISSIONAS
Cuppage/etal/1986 265 reading only
Macalister/1897 39 reading only
Macalister/1945 155 reading only
McManus/1991 65 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical up along
Position:n/a ; arris ; beside cross ; undivided
Incision:pocked
Macalister/1945, 155: `apparently pocked'.
Date:366 - 466 (McManus/1991)
McManus/1991, 93--94.
Language:name only (ogham)
Ling. Notes:See McManus/1991, 116.
Palaeography:none
Legibility:poor
Macalister/1945, 155: `Letters apparently pocked on the dexter side and the top, but now extremely worn'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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